Health Care

Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School will lead a multi-institute center aiming to reduce and prevent suicide through the use of technology.

Family Health Center of Worcester has received $2.9 million from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, part of the agency’s Community Health Center capital grant investment program.

A UMass Chan Medical School professor has received $500,000 from a North Carolina private foundation to research using cholesterol metabolites to regulate the immune system.

A group calling itself the Massachusetts for Mental Health Options committee filed paperwork with state campaign finance regulators signaling plans to pursue a ballot question that could decriminalize psychedelics.

Aspiring nurse aides should be allowed to take the certification exam in languages other than English, lawmakers and advocates said Thursday as they sought to revive support for a measure that died at the legislative finish line last year.

The City of Worcester is launching a pilot program to test a new crisis response model for emergencies involving mental health and substance abuse components.

As hospitals shutter services in the wake of staffing shortages, community members and health care workers will argue Thursday that the state should become responsible for hospitals that are "essential" but threatening to close.

Following a May announcement that UMass Memorial Health will shutter its maternity ward at the HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, Leominster Campus, community advocates continue to push for services to remain in place.

Of the 20 highest-paid state employees in Massachusetts, nine are employed by UMass Chan Medical School, according to data from the state’s Office of the Comptroller compiled by the WBJ Research Department.

MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham has named John Whitlock, Jr. its CEO, after he held the role in interim for six months.